NYC Ferry Crash Injures Dozens

Jan. 9, 2013 11:15 a.m. ET

A privately operated commuter ferry struck a dock during rush hour in Lower Manhattan at 8:45 a.m on Wednesday morning. Pictured, a victim of the crash being cared for by emergency personnel.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg inspects the damaged vessel. The accident left dozens injured and two passengers in serious condition.
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Among the injured are at least two passengers with head injuries, said officials at the scene. One crew member was among the injured.
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Two women embrace over police tape as patients are treated by emergency personnel on a dock after the accident. Police personnel at the scene said there were 343 passengers and five crew members on board the vessel at the time of the accident.
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The scene on the dock after the accident. The accident involved a Seastreak ferry which was docking at Manhattan's Pier 11, located near Wall Street. The company offers catamaran service between central New Jersey and the Rockaway peninsula in Queens and Manhattan.
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An injured passenger from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry uses his mobile phone. More than an hour after the accident, passengers were still being taken off the vessel. Dozens of injured commuters waited all over the dock to be treated by emergency responders.
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Patients are treated by emergency personnel on the dock. Janette Sadik-Khan, the city commissioner for the Department of Transportation, estimated the speed of the boat at the time of the crash at 10 to 12 knots, far too fast for a normal ferry landing. 'Basically it was a hard landing,' she said.
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A patient is moved by emergency personnel after the accident. Seastreak's commuter fleet includes four vessels that can accommodate up to 400 passengers and another that can hold 149 passengers, the company's website says.
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Emergency personnel assist a woman on the dock after the accident. A city official said the vessel struck the floating dock on the south side of Pier 11, where the ferry was scheduled to land. It remained secured at an adjacent slip on Wednesday afternoon.
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The scene on the dock after the accident. The ferry crash brought Pier 11, which brings thousands of workers into Lower Manhattan each day, to a temporary standstill at the height of the morning rush.
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About 36,000 daily passengers use private ferries to commute through New York Harbor, including Seastreak's service from Monmouth County, N.J. That number does not include the roughly 65,000 passengers per day that ride the Staten Island Ferry, which is operated by the city.
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Injured passengers were taken to hospitals in Manhattan and Brooklyn. A law-enforcement official said that 74 people from the vessel had been taken to hospitals, and by Wednesday afternoon all were conscious and none were expected to die.
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The damaged vessel is pictured. The 140-foot commuter ferry, named Seastreak Wall Street, had departed from Highlands, N.J.
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